A new report provides recommendations across food waste prevention, surplus food rescue, food waste recycling, and coordination in food waste policy in the 2023 Farm Bill.
California's proposed standards require one-third of vehicles sold by manufacturers to be electric vehicles (EVs) starting in model year 2026, moving towards 100 percent of sales in 2035.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it is issuing two important regulations that will make the nation’s lightbulbs much more efficient, saving consumers money and reducing climate-warming carbon pollution at the same time.
Today, the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, in collaboration with NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), ReFED, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), released “Opportunities to Reduce Food Waste in the 2023 Farm Bill,” a new report detailing how…
The U.S. Department of Energy finalized two rules today that will advance the energy efficiency of the nation’s light bulbs and create significant savings for consumers while avoiding millions of tons of carbon emissions.
Lithium may play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but a climate-friendly future cannot come at the expense of destroying biodiverse regions or violating Indigenous rights where it is mined.
As the metal fuels the clean tech boom, companies race to mine the Atacama Region. At stake: fragile ecosystems, scarce water resources, and ancient ways of life.
At the first-ever National Meeting of the National Integrated Heat Health Information System, practitioners from across the country will discuss how to keep America safe from deadly heat.
Rather than planning for droughts and ensuring that minimum water quality objectives are achieved in critically dry years, the proposed voluntary agreement appears to be a “plan to fail” to protect the Delta in future droughts.
This week the U.S. Department of Transportation delivered new guidance for a key program in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Carbon Reduction Program.
To solve the climate crisis, we must protect our mature forests and big trees. NRDC is working to safeguard these climate-critical parts of our federal forestlands.
Pennsylvania’s CO2 Budget Trading Program regulation, which will enable the Commonwealth to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), has been published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. The regulation is now formally in effect and Pennsylvania can move forward with…
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